Flickerfest

First published on 25 Nov 2009. Updated on 21 Jan 2013.

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The culture of short filmmaking is alive and well in Sydney thanks to Flickerfest – not only Australia’s most important short film festival, but the oldest open-air film festival in Sydney.

For 2013’s festival – running January 11-20 at Bondi Pavilion – Flickerfest acquires an extra distinction. The Flickerfest Best Australian Short Film Award is now officially Academy Accredited. This means that the US Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will watch the winning film each year and consider it for the Oscars. The award joins Flickerfest’s Best Film and Best Animation Awards in being Academy Accredited.

Fittingly for the event’s beachside venue, the theme in 2013 is Elvis Presley and Blue Hawaii. The official Flickerfest trailer (scroll down to the end), which always has a theme tied into a popular film, stars local actors Isabelle Cornish, Zoe Carides and Ryan Johnson, and pays tribute to this theme.

Here’s the full Flickerfest programme:

Australian Competition
Bondi	The best locally made short films on show
Celebrity Shorts
Bondi	Short films featuring familiar faces
Documentary Competition
Bondi	A bunch of reality bites
Flickerkids
Bondi	A session of shorts for ages 6-12
Greenflicks
Bondi	Eco-flicks for the environmentally conscious
International Competition
Bondi	Selected from thousands of overseas submissions
Oscars Shorts
Bondi	The Academy like them! They really like them!
Short Laughs
Bondi	Films for your funny bone
Viva Las Elvis
Bondi	The King lives! In shorts.